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Wiki: General availability October 25, 2001; 15 years ago.

General minimum recommended for XP was/is 512MB.

Microsoft specified minimum is 64MB, recommended 128MB. XP RTM with 128MB RAM was perfectly usable, obviously it was not a good idea to run lots of crap in background.

Nice... Didn't Google before posting... Busted. :)

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